Triple

T1470266
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award E27118 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object John D. Kraus
John D. Kraus was an American physicist, radio astronomer, and antenna engineer known for pioneering contributions to radio telescope design and electromagnetic theory.
E166922 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John D. Kraus | Statement: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, John D. Kraus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John D. Kraus
Context triple: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, John D. Kraus]
  • A. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • B. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • C. Charles Stark Draper
    Charles Stark Draper was an American engineer and scientist renowned as the "father of inertial navigation" for his pioneering work in guidance and control systems.
  • D. Arthur E. Kennelly
    Arthur E. Kennelly was a prominent electrical engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in alternating current theory and radio science.
  • E. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John D. Kraus
Triple: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, John D. Kraus]
Generated description
John D. Kraus was an American physicist, radio astronomer, and antenna engineer known for pioneering contributions to radio telescope design and electromagnetic theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John D. Kraus
Target entity description: John D. Kraus was an American physicist, radio astronomer, and antenna engineer known for pioneering contributions to radio telescope design and electromagnetic theory.
  • A. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • B. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • C. Charles Stark Draper
    Charles Stark Draper was an American engineer and scientist renowned as the "father of inertial navigation" for his pioneering work in guidance and control systems.
  • D. Arthur E. Kennelly
    Arthur E. Kennelly was a prominent electrical engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in alternating current theory and radio science.
  • E. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5d9dd4c8190ba840a9255cd1293 completed March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0e805fa481908d6428a4e2fb4c4a completed March 8, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0f0b145c8190b08af9a6a3325c23 completed March 8, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0f9380648190b4db1b9c92f37831 completed March 8, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.